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- Ssanngyong will adopt a system whereby the maximum allowable amount of carbon emissions is set. This is the first instance of such a system being adopted by domestic construction firms.
- Ssanngyong will reduce carbon emissions by saving electricity, water and fuel.
- Well-performing Ssanngyong worksites will be able to sell CERS to others.


It is expected that Ssangyong Engineering & Construction (Chairman: Kim Suk-joon) Will have the effect of planting 200,000 trees every year by adopting the system which sets the maximum allowable carbon emissions made by its worksites.

The company plans to expand the program, the first of its kind ever adopted by a domestic construction firm, throughout all of its domestic worksites, starting July, after carrying out test operations in the first half of the year.

During the test period, the company will set the target of the emissions volume from its various worksites reduced by about 10%. To this end, a thorough analysis will be carried out on the cost items closely associated with carbon emissions, such as power, water, and the fuel consumed by various modes of transportation (such as heavy equipment). The new system will be based on the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system.

Worksites that succeed in reducing their carbon emissions over the set target, in each quarter of a year, will be able to sell carbon emissions rights (CERs) to other worksites.

According to an analysis of seven 330-household apartment worksites, each emits about 80,000 kg of carbon dioxide over a two year work period. Thus, it has been estimated that 30,000 trees need to be planted for this amount of carbon dioxide to be absorbed.

The Reduction of carbon dioxide emitted by a jobsite of the Company by 10% can bring about an effect of planting 1,500 trees. This means that when the carbon emission reduction program is expanded to include all of the Ssanngyong worksites throughout the country There will be the effect of planting 200,000 pine trees each year.

Director Park Yun-seop in the Architectural Engineering Department said, “Our program, which has been implemented in step with the government’s low carbon green growth policy, is expected to benefit the company in several Ways such as (including) most notably cost reduction through competition between worksites and the development of new technologies. Indeed, we plan to gradually expand this system to our overseas worksites.”